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Sperm freezing in Maidenhead
Sperm freezing is the most successful method of preserving a man's fertility. If you're considering freezing your sperm, our experienced team at TFP Thames Valley Fertility is here to guide you. Serving patients from across the Thames Valley, including Reading, Ashford and beyond, our Maidenhead clinic offers specialist sperm freezing care in a calm, modern setting.
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What is sperm freezing?
The sperm freezing process involves collecting, freezing and safely storing sperm for future use.
While male fertility generally declines more gradually with age than female fertility, sperm freezing can help preserve your fertility options if you’re planning to delay starting or growing your family.
Frozen sperm can be used in fertility treatments including intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilisation (IVF), giving you the option to consider treatment when the time is right for you.
You may be considering sperm freezing if...
You're not ready to start a family
You're about to have a vasectomy
You have a condition or are undergoing treatment that affects your fertility
You're a transgender or non-binary person about to undergo gender affirming surgery
You’re in the armed forces or work a “hazardous” job
You want to preserve your fertility for personal or lifestyle reasons
How does sperm freezing work?
At TFP Thames Valley Fertility, we support patients from across Maidenhead and the wider Thames Valley region through every stage of the sperm freezing process. The sperm freezing process is relatively simple, we just require a few fresh sperm samples for testing and freezing purposes.
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Fertility and screening tests
We'll first carry out a semen analysis to assess whether you have viable sperm to freeze. We'll also screen for any infection diseases, such as HIV or hepatitis C. The results of these screening tests won't stop you from freezing your sperm, but will ensure that any affected sperm samples are stored separately from others to prevent contamination.
Sperm sample
Following these tests, you'll need to produce a fresh sample of sperm which will be frozen. In most cases, you'll come into your chosen TFP Fertility clinic where you'll collect your sample in one of our production rooms. If this causes you some anxiety, you also have the option of producing your sample at home - we just ask that it's brought back to the clinic within one hour.
If you’re unable to produce a sperm sample, we can also retrieve it using a procedure called surgical sperm retrieval.
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Sperm freezing
Once we have your sperm sample, this is mixed with a cryoprotectant to protect the sperm from damage during freezing.
Before freezing, the sperm sample is divided into separate containers so that it can be used in multiple treatments, if required. The samples are then rapidly cooled using a method called vitrification and safely stored in tanks of liquid nitrogen.
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How much does sperm freezing cost in Maidenhead?
You'll find a breakdown of a typical sperm freezing cycle below, as well as the cost of a fertility assessment to help provide you with the answers you need to plan for your future.
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Fertility assessment
£205
Includes semen analysis
Sperm freezing
£730
Includes sperm screening and freezing
Storage
£389
Paid annually
Get in touch
Our team is here to provide clear pricing details and answer any questions about sperm freezing. Contact us to plan your next steps with confidence.
How successful is sperm freezing?
We estimate that 50% of frozen sperm will survive the freeze-thaw process. We freeze your sperm in individual straws so that not all sperm has to be thawed at once.
Fertility treatment using frozen sperm is just as successful as treatment using fresh sperm. When using frozen sperm, we use a technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), which involves injecting a single healthy sperm direction into the egg, to increase chances of successful fertilisation.
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Sperm freezing FAQs
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At TFP Thames Valley Fertility, we provide expert sperm freezing care to patients across Maidenhead and the wider Thames Valley region, including Reading, Ashford and Croydon, from our modern clinic in the heart of Berkshire.
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Speak to our patient support team for advice about your options and to book your first consultation with a fertility expert.